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once-upon-a-time

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  • These dramas always begin in the hardscrabble idyll of monolithic, once-upon-a-time 'hoods, lurch through zero-sum economic warfare where white gain goes hand-in-hand with colored/working-class loss, and invariably end in bohemian elegy, pale-faced victors compelled by guilt to speak for the dead, the erased, the evicted.

    Gary Dauphin: Shades of Gentrification Gary Dauphin 2010

  • These dramas always begin in the hardscrabble idyll of monolithic, once-upon-a-time 'hoods, lurch through zero-sum economic warfare where white gain goes hand-in-hand with colored/working-class loss, and invariably end in bohemian elegy, pale-faced victors compelled by guilt to speak for the dead, the erased, the evicted.

    Gary Dauphin: Shades of Gentrification Gary Dauphin 2010

  • In a country that is rapidly changing demographically -- and where new neighbors may have arrived last year, not last century -- there is a very real sense that once-upon-a-time America is getting lost in the dash to diversity.

    Greg Mitchell: Amid CNN Debacle: Kathleen Parker and 'Full-Blooded' Americanism Greg Mitchell 2010

  • Cut off a long time ago, either by her once-upon-a-time husband, or perhaps by her clan because of the dishonor she brought upon them.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • In a country that is rapidly changing demographically -- and where new neighbors may have arrived last year, not last century -- there is a very real sense that once-upon-a-time America is getting lost in the dash to diversity.

    Greg Mitchell: Amid CNN Debacle: Kathleen Parker and 'Full-Blooded' Americanism Greg Mitchell 2010

  • In a country that is rapidly changing demographically -- and where new neighbors may have arrived last year, not last century -- there is a very real sense that once-upon-a-time America is getting lost in the dash to diversity.

    Greg Mitchell: Amid CNN Debacle: Kathleen Parker and 'Full-Blooded' Americanism Greg Mitchell 2010

  • Now let's destroy the other side! for my once-upon-a-time husband.

    Sharon Zarozny: What Happens When Divorce Bankrupts You? Sharon Zarozny 2012

  • It is a song of a person who has almost given up on their once-upon-a-time lust for life.

    To Each A Song « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • Now let's destroy the other side! for my once-upon-a-time husband.

    Sharon Zarozny: What Happens When Divorce Bankrupts You? Sharon Zarozny 2012

  • Cut off a long time ago, either by her once-upon-a-time husband, or perhaps by her clan because of the dishonor she brought upon them.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

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